Taiji

Weekday departures: 31/day · Sat & holiday departures: 31/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:52 / 23:23

Busiest hour: 13:00–14:00 (4)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Kisei Line: Yukawa ⇄ Shimosato

Taiji Station opened on 18 July 1935 when the then-named Kisei-chū Line was opened between Kii-Katsuura and Shimosato. Successive line-renaming reorganisations placed it on the Kisei West Line in 1940 and on the present-day Kisei Main Line in 1959 when the through route between Kameyama and Wakayama (now Kiwa) was completed. The station became unstaffed in March 1985, and on 1 April 1987 the privatisation of Japanese National Railways transferred it to JR West. From the 15 March 2014 timetable revision, every Kuroshio limited-express service began stopping at Taiji, and a new disaster-resilient station building was completed on 31 May 2021. Daily management is contracted out to the town of Taiji.

In 1996 the town's whaling heritage was commemorated with a whale mural painted onto the platform retaining wall.